If you are as excited as we are about this new era of non-opioid pain management and want to learn more, explore our series of articles that unravel the fascinating history of target validation of voltage-gated sodium channels, showcase the breakthroughs achieved so far, and look forward to what lies ahead for the industry.
It's hard not to think about infectious diseases at the moment, but it's a great time to review the drug discovery literature. One area of drug discovery that has deep roots in infectious disease research is targeted covalent inhibition. Targeted covalent inhibitors form covalent bonds with discrete targets (as opposed to [...]
This article introduces the Topliss tree and Topliss schemes for analog synthesis, illustrates when they might be useful, and provides easy-to-use posters or "cheat sheets" of the original schemes. By Christian Kuttruff Why are the Topliss Tree and Topliss Schemes Useful? Imagine you’re on a new project that has just conducted a chemical [...]
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We’ll be reviewing 2021’s novel FDA drug approvals in a series of articles, starting with this high-level overview of the small molecule drugs approved by the FDA in 2021. You can find Part 2 on First-in-Class Small Molecules here and the 2021 Large Molecules series here . Our deep dive on Small Molecule Oncology Approvals is also live [...]
